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Please see the .\" License for the specific language governing rights and limitations .\" under the License. .\" .\" @(#)getdirentriesattr.2 . .Dd December 15, 2003 .Dt GETDIRENTRIESATTR 2 .Os Darwin .Sh NAME .Nm getdirentriesattr(NOW DEPRECATED) .Nd get file system attributes for multiple directory entries .Sh SYNOPSIS .Fd #include .Fd #include .Pp .Fd #if __LP64__ .Ft int .Fn getdirentriesattr "int fd" "struct attrlist * attrList" "void * attrBuf" "size_t attrBufSize" "unsigned int * count" "unsigned int * basep" "unsigned int * newState" "unsigned int options" .Fd #else .Ft int .Fn getdirentriesattr "int fd" "struct attrlist * attrList" "void * attrBuf" "size_t attrBufSize" "unsigned long * count" "unsigned long * basep" "unsigned long * newState" "unsigned long options" .Fd #endif . . .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn getdirentriesattr function reads directory entries and returns their attributes (that is, metadata). You can think of it as a combination of .Xr getdirentries 2 and .Xr getattrlist 2 . .Fn getdirentriesattr iterates over the items in a directory like .Xr getdirentries 2 , and returns information about each directory entry like .Xr getattrlist 2 . Note: when .Fn getdirentriesattr returns information about a symbolic link, the information returned is about the link itself, not the target of the link. .Pp The function reads directory entries from the directory referenced by the file descriptor .Fa fd . Attributes of those directory entries are placed into the buffer specified by .Fa attrBuf and .Fa attrBufSize . The .Fa attrList parameter determines what attributes are returned for each entry. The .Fa count parameter contains the number of directory entries requested and returned. The .Fa basep parameter returns the directory offset in a manner similar to .Xr getdirentries 2 . The .Fa newState parameter allows you to check whether the directory has been modified while you were reading it. The .Fa options parameter lets you control specific aspects of the function's behaviour. .Pp . The .Fn getdirentriesattr function is only supported by certain volume format implementations. For maximum compatibility, client programs should use high-level APIs (such as the Carbon File Manager) to access file system attributes. These high-level APIs include logic to emulate file system attributes on volumes that don't support .Fn getdirentriesattr . .Pp . .\" fd parameter . The .Fa fd parameter must be a file descriptor that references a directory that you have opened for reading. .Pp . .\" attrList parameter . The .Fa attrList parameter is a pointer to an .Vt attrlist structure. You are responsible for filling out all fields of this structure before calling the function. See the discussion of the .Xr getattrlist 2 function for a detailed description of this structure. To get an attribute you must set the corresponding bit in the appropriate .Vt attrgroup_t field of the .Vt attrlist structure. You must not request volume attributes. .Pp . .\" attrBuf and attrBufSize parameters . The .Fa attrBuf and .Fa attrBufSize parameters specify a buffer into which the function places attribute values. The attributes for any given directory entry are grouped together and packed in exactly the same way as they are returned from .Xr getattrlist 2 . These groups are then placed into the buffer, one after another. As each group starts with a leading .Vt u_int32_t that contains the overall length of the group, you can step from one group to the next by simply adding this length to your pointer. The sample code (below) shows how to do this. The initial contents of this buffer are ignored. .Pp . .\" count parameter . The .Fa count parameter points to an .Vt unsigned long or .Vt unsigned int variable. You should initialise this variable to be the number of directory entries for which you wish to get attributes. On return, this variable contains the number of directory entries whose attributes have been placed into the attribute buffer. This may be smaller than the number that you requested. .Pp . .\" basep parameter The .Fa basep parameter returns the offset of the last directory entry read, in a manner identical to .Xr getdirentries 2 . You can use this value to reset a directory iteration to a known position using .Xr lseek 2 . However, since the variable is too small to hold an .Vt off_t , you should use .Xr lseek 2 to get the directory's current position instead of using this parameter. The initial value of the variable is ignored. .Pp . .\" newState parameter . The .Fa newState parameter returns a value that changes if the directory has been modified. If you're iterating through the directory by making repeated calls to .Fn getdirentriesattr , you can compare subsequent values of .Fa newState to determine whether the directory has been modified (and thus restart your iteration at the beginning). The initial value of the variable is ignored. .Pp . .\" options parameter . The .Fa options parameter is a bit set that controls the behaviour of .Fn getdirentriesattr . The following option bits are defined. . .Bl -tag -width FSOPT_NOINMEMUPDATE . .It FSOPT_NOINMEMUPDATE This tells .Fn getdirentriesattr to return the directory entries from disk rather than taking the extra step of looking at data structures in-memory which may contain changes that haven't been flushed to disk. .Pp This option allowed for specific performance optimizations for specific clients on older systems. We currently recommend that clients not set this option and that file system implementations ignore it. . .El .Pp It is typical to ask for a combination of common, file, and directory attributes and then use the value of the .Dv ATTR_CMN_OBJTYPE attribute to parse the resulting attribute buffer. .Sh NOTES As of Mac OS X 10.10, .Fn getdirentriesattr is deprecated. It is replaced by .Nm getattrlistbulk(2). Continued use of .Fn getdirentriesattr is strongly discouraged as comprehensive results are not guaranteed. .Sh RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion a value of 0 or 1 is returned. The value 0 indicates that the routine completed successfully. The value 1 indicates that the routine completed successfully and has returned the last entry in the directory. On error, a value of -1 is returned and .Va errno is set to indicate the error. . .Sh COMPATIBILITY Not all volumes support .Fn getdirentriesattr . You can test whether a volume supports .Fn getdirentriesattr by using .Xr getattrlist 2 to get the volume capabilities attribute .Dv ATTR_VOL_CAPABILITIES , and then testing the .Dv VOL_CAP_INT_READDIRATTR flag. .Pp . The .Fn getdirentriesattr function has been undocumented for more than two years. In that time a number of volume format implementations have been created without a proper specification for the behaviour of this routine. You may encounter volume format implementations with slightly different behaviour than what is described here. Your program is expected to be tolerant of this variant behaviour. .Pp . If you're implementing a volume format that supports .Fn getdirentriesattr , you should be careful to support the behaviour specified by this document. . .Pp If the directory contains a mount point, then .Dq DIR_MNTSTATUS_MNTPOINT will be set in the .Dv ATTR_DIR_MOUNTSTATUS for that entry; all other attributes for that entry, however, will be for the underlying file system (as opposed to the mounted file system). .Xr getattrlist 2 should be used to get the attributes for the mount point. .Pp A directory which is a firmlink will have the .Dq SF_FIRMLINK flag set in its ATTR_CMN_FLAGS attribute entry. However the attributes returned by .Fn getdirentriesattr will be those from the firmlink, not the firmlink's target. To get the attributes of the firmlink's target, call .Xr getattrlist 2 on the firmlink. .Sh ERRORS .Fn getdirentriesattr will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er . .It Bq Er ENOTSUP The volume does not support .Fn getdirentriesattr . . .It Bq Er EBADF .Fa fd is not a valid file descriptor for a directory open for reading. . .It Bq Er EFAULT .Fa attrList or .Em attrBuf points to an invalid address. . .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa bitmapcount field of .Fa attrList is not .Dv ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT . . .It Bq Er EINVAL You requested an invalid attribute. . .It Bq Er EINVAL You requested volume attributes. . .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa options parameter contains an invalid flag. . .It Bq Er EIO An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. .El .Pp . .Sh EXAMPLES . The following code lists the contents of a directory using .Fn getdirentriesattr . The listing includes the file type and creator for files. . .Bd -literal #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include .Pp . typedef struct attrlist attrlist_t; .Pp . struct FInfoAttrBuf { u_int32_t length; attrreference_t name; fsobj_type_t objType; char finderInfo[32]; u_int32_t dirStatus; } __attribute__((aligned(4), packed)); typedef struct FInfoAttrBuf FInfoAttrBuf; .Pp . enum { kEntriesPerCall = 10 }; .Pp . static int FInfoDemo(const char *dirPath) { int err; int junk; int dirFD; attrlist_t attrList; #ifdef __LP64__ unsigned int index; unsigned int count; unsigned int junkBaseP; unsigned int oldState; unsigned int newState; #else unsigned long index; unsigned long count; unsigned long junkBaseP; unsigned long oldState; unsigned long newState; #endif bool oldStateValid; bool done; FInfoAttrBuf * thisEntry; char attrBuf[kEntriesPerCall * (sizeof(FInfoAttrBuf) + 64)]; .Pp . // attrBuf is big enough for kEntriesPerCall entries, assuming that // the average name length is less than 64. .Pp . memset(&attrList, 0, sizeof(attrList)); attrList.bitmapcount = ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT; attrList.commonattr = ATTR_CMN_NAME | ATTR_CMN_OBJTYPE | ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO; attrList.dirattr = ATTR_DIR_MOUNTSTATUS; .Pp err = 0; dirFD = open(dirPath, O_RDONLY, 0); if (dirFD < 0) { err = errno; } if (err == 0) { oldStateValid = false; done = false; do { count = kEntriesPerCall; .Pp err = getdirentriesattr( dirFD, &attrList, &attrBuf, sizeof(attrBuf), &count, &junkBaseP, &newState, 0 ); if (err < 0) { err = errno; } else { done = err; err = 0; } .Pp if (err == 0) { if (oldStateValid) { if (newState != oldState) { printf("*** Directory has changed\en"); oldState = newState; } } else { oldState = newState; oldStateValid = true; } .Pp thisEntry = (FInfoAttrBuf *) attrBuf; .Pp for (index = 0; index < count; index++) { switch (thisEntry->objType) { case VREG: printf( "'%4.4s' '%4.4s' ", &thisEntry->finderInfo[0], &thisEntry->finderInfo[4] ); break; case VDIR: if (thisEntry->dirStatus & DIR_MNTSTATUS_MNTPOINT) printf("mount-point "); else printf("directory "); break; default: printf( "objType = %-2d ", thisEntry->objType ); break; } printf( "%s\en", ((char *) &thisEntry->name) + thisEntry->name.attr_dataoffset ); .Pp // Advance to the next entry. .Pp thisEntry = (FInfoAttrBuf*)((char*)thisEntry + thisEntry->length); } } } while ( err == 0 && ! done ); } .Pp if (dirFD != -1) { junk = close(dirFD); assert(junk == 0); } .Pp return err; } .Ed .Pp . .Sh SEE ALSO . .Xr getattrlist 2 , .Xr getdirentries 2 , .Xr lseek 2 . .Sh HISTORY A .Fn getdirentriesattr function call appeared in Darwin 1.3.1 (Mac OS X version 10.0). .